There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.